Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes
Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with each other.
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Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
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If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.
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I think most of us in America want our security. There're so many people out there that are fearful and now with this realization of immigration, with the terrorists, we need to have better checks and balances in regards to who's emigrating into our country.
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
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Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
